Improvement in bee-hives



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Lette/rs Patent No."93,009, dated July 27, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IVN BEE-Hives.

The Schedule referred to inj :hese Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom, it may concern:

Bc it known that I, GEORGE A. ROBINSON, of Mount Pulaski, in the county of Logan, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bee-Hives; .and I do hereby -declare that the following is affnll, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use` the same, referenceA being had to the accompan ying drawing, forming part of this specification.

rlhis invention relates to new and useful improvements in bee-hives, and consists in the construction and arrangement of parts as hereinafter described.

The accompanying drawing'represents a vertical section of a bee-hive, constructed according to my invention.

A is the moth-box, at the bottom ofthe hive.

B is a platform.

C is a perforated bottom for allowing the dirt, and.

also any moth that may gain access into the hive above, to pass through into the .box A.

D is a sliding door for cleaning ont the moth-box. E is a double adjustable slide' for closing the entrance for the bees when desired, and also for catching the moths in the recess f, when they crawl l'down on the outside of the hive.

G represents the hive.

rlhe bees enter the hive at-I.

Both bees and moths will light on the platform B. The lmoths will naturally crawl from the platform `into thev moth-box A, but the-becs, from an instinctive regard t their own safety, will take theA entrance I, and ascend into the hive.

J represents slides on one or more Asides of the .,hive, which cover glass windows for admitting light,

and allowing the interiorv of the hivc to be inspected. The hive is ventilated vby means of a perforated piece of metal on the under sidev of the cover K, through which the air passes into an orilice, 'm, made width-wise through the top or cover, as seen in the drawing.

.Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The construction and arrangement of the moth-box A, the platform B, the bee-orifice I, and the slide E,

substantially as and for vthe purposes described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me, this 17th day of April, 1869.

GEORGE A. ROBINSON. Witnesses:

JNO. W. SEYFER, F. M. YOKEM. 

